US Air Force awards $95M contract to study laser weapon effects on targets
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Colton Jones
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The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $95 million contract to Verus Research LLC to study how laser weapons affect their targets and improve data analysis methods. This research supports America's push to develop directed energy weapons as a primary defense against drones and missiles. The contract was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base to the Huntsville, Alabama-based defense research company.
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· 1 pulledVerus Research LLC, a defense research company based in Huntsville, Alabama, the city at the center of America's missile and space defense industrial base, won the competitive contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base.
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